Example for a company with 70 to 200 employees
As mentioned we develop the programme under the five headings of:
- From Pre-Awareness to Awareness
- From Awareness to Knowledge
- From Knowledge to Implementation
- Implementation
- Maintenance
We have provided indicative costs in italics for items over and above membership of the DLN. We also provide a summary of costs and the projected time investment for the executives.
This plan is purely to give an impression of what might be involved. Obviously each organisation will develop their own unique plan.
From Pre-Awareness to Awareness – for CEO and senior executives
- The annual “Society in Sync” Conference (Costs £175 per delegate)
- Membership of various learning groups
- Attendance at "Challenging our Paradigms" workshops
- Various articles plus word of mouth
Awareness to Knowledge - for CEO and senior executives
- Membership of CEO group by CEO
- Attendance at evenings training course, on Deming's 14 points or his book "The New Economics"
- Reference to video, audio tapes as well as bibliography.
- Review of web page and links, especially:
- The Self Assessment Tool
- The challenge – which leads onto:
- Principles or theories which leads onto:
- The Crux of the challenge
- Comparing traditional with modern concepts
- Methods
- Two hour workshop with senior executives for each member organisation
Knowledge to Implementation
- Identifying with the benefits of creating a learning organisation, with DLN assistance if required.
- A full two day training course “Opening Minds to New Possibilities” for senior staff (costs £2000 per course)
- A research exercise from the DLN that considers the existing culture of the organisation. (cost £2000)
- CEO, with DLN, reviewing the findings of the research project.
- Three half day workshops with senior executives, identifying the challenges and envisioning the future. This to include addressing aims and values of the organisation. (Cost £300 per workshop)
- Meeting with senior executives, with DLN assistance, to decide to go forward
- Appointment of an internal staff member who will have responsibility to co-ordinate project.
- Meeting with DLN officer and project co-ordinator to plan out project. This meeting to determine the time and monetary investment that is to be committed to the project.
- CEO and Senior Executives to review detailed plan of project co-ordinator and DLN officer. The plan to identify measurement criteria.
Implementation
- Secure a deployment Flowmap software (Cost approx £500)
- Secure a control chart software (Cost £300)
- Half day work shop with staff informing them of the intent to create a learning organisation (Cost if DLN are involved £300)
The following assumes that the implementation plan is to progress by identifying one project area at a time.
- DLN officer listens to staff and records actual system in the project area in flow chart form, should only be required for first project. (Cost £1000)
- The company set up an improvement group, meeting monthly, to study and improve the system.
- Facilitation by DLN officer of improvement group. We anticipate that the assistance of a DLN will be required for the first year.( £250 x 12 sessions)
- Training in the use of Deployment Flow maps and Control charts and analysis tools (Costs – formal training course £750 – though training is likely to occur in the course of improvement group meetings)
- The design of a formal learning and enabling system with DLN assistance (Cost £500)
- The determination of a system of measurement for the system being studied
- The collection of data reflecting effectiveness of system being studied
- Analysis of data using control charts (Costs incorporated in improvement group support)
- Involvement of project manager and project leader in the Systems and Data Learning groups of the DLN
- On at least a bi-monthly basis the project to be reviewed by the CEO. This review to ensure that the time investment of the project plan is being made available and that the project is providing the benefits as planned.
- Quarterly strategy meetings for senior executives – with DLN help – to identify and challenge the thinking of the organisation, with reference to vision and aims of the enterprise and the present projects. (Costs £250 per session)
- Continue the above process, project by project, until all areas of the company have been addressed. With each re-iteration less and less assistance from the DLN will be required.
Maintenance
Progressing the thinking of the organisation is a long term process. We recommend the following:
- The continuation of the quarterly strategy meetings where, with DLN assistance, the enterprise continues to challenge the underlying assumptions of the organisation.
- The continued expansion of the improvement groups till they cover the whole operation of the company
- The continued attention to the learning system
- Auditing the new systems to avoid regression
- Continued learning from training courses such as:
- Improvement tools such as Cause & Effect diagrams, Time plots, Pareto analysis, Six Thinking Hats etc (1 day course £750)
- Dialogue and the development of listening skills (1 day course £1000)
- SPC and the analysis of data (1 day course £1000)
- Continued membership of all the DLN learning groups. By this stage the company will be bringing their practical experiences to the membership and be in the mode of learning from teaching
- Regular revisiting values, vision and underlying assumptions.
Summary Costs
1st Year costs:
- Membership of DLN £900
- Conference 4 delegates £700
- Two day training course £2000
- Research of existing culture £2000
- Aims, values, vision etc 3 x half days £900
- Flowmap software £500
- Control Chart software £300
- Half day informing staff £300
- Flowmapping system for first project £1000
- Facilitation of impr. group 12 x £250 £3000
- Learning systems design £500
- Quarterly strategy meetings 4 x £250 £1000
Total £13,100
1st year staff time after decision to implement
- Project Manager 12 days
- Improvement Group 12days per member
- Senior Executives 6 days
- CEO 12 days
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